User blog comment:Danthemanb/Riddles/@comment-97.121.63.20-20100412212006

t's the future and queen Elizabeth the third and queen Elizabeth the fourth are going to a party held by queen Elizabeth the fifth. They're keen to make the right impression so it's important that they choose their outfits carefully. Queen Elizabeth the third has forty dresses to choose from, where as Queen Elizabeth the fourth has four thousand. Queen Elizabeth the fifth has just one dress, but it has the ability to transform itself into the shape of any dress. The night before the party Queen Elizabeth the fourth’s handmaiden steals the patents to Queen Elizabeth the third's dresses and working through till dawn makes forty exact replicas. Can you calculate the probability that all three queens will be wearing the same dress at the party and how many times can Queen Elizabeth's dress change before it overheats?